Six Months

Hard to believe, huh?

I hung out with Tim pretty much all day today. We got me all caught up on Entourage with the intention of watching the new episode then tonight at nine, which was GREAT. We started really early, around 2ish, so we threw some Dexter in there as well, an absolutely PHENOMENAL show. Around seven we were both getting hungry so we went to Buzzard Billy's when I had the odd craving for shrimp Alfredo. As we were talking I made some comment that I couldn't believe it was June already and the year had gone so fast. Tim felt the opposite, that it had gone by so slowly, given that it was six months ago to the day exactly that it happened. I am not trying to be overly dramatic, I tried typing the words, tried saying what happened, and it just looks wrong. Putting his name in a sentence with those words, it's just wrong and I can't do it so I say...it happened. Tim kind of feels like it's been so long, yet it could have just happened yesterday, and I feel the opposite, go figure. Generally memories are supposed to fade over time, regardless of if you want them to or not. But I can still recount everything I did from the moment my phone rang on December 3rd at 2:35 PM, right through the car ride back from Gordon a week later. It's not something I want to forget, it's just that everything is still very vivid, like it really was just yesterday.

Of course from there the conversation went down a road it normally does, telling our favorite stories, which I know we will still be telling in ten years because A) They're great stories and great memories and B) Not all of us can shut down every time his name is mentioned and pretend he never existed. Then during an episode of Dexter there was a black cat in one scene and immediately Tim and I were thinking the same thing and saying, "Te-Quila!" Despite the somewhat morbid milestone it represents, today was not unpleasant. Dare I even say it was good? Well, it was. I spent a long period of time with a good friend I don't get to see as often now for various reasons, and we watched our favorite TV shows, ate some good food, and talked about a lot of random and not-so-random things that mattered to us. You don't need much else from life than that.

EDIT - I also just realized that one year ago today was when I first encountered Evan and Tim for any great length of time, though it would be a few more weeks before we'd hang out as a group and drink and watch movies. Brett and I had gone to X-Men 3 and gone back to the apartment to hang out for a while. Evan had been sitting on the couch, Tim on the love seat, and it was that first time he smiled at me that I knew I was going to be in for an interesting time. If only I had really known. But you know what? I wouldn't change a thing.